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Help and support

Find support resources, report security or community violations, and learn how to contribute to Obsidian.

Questions and advice

If you have a question about how to use Obsidian, or want to get to know other Obsidian users, you can join one of our community channels:

Report bugs and request features

Important

Before you request a new feature or report a bug, please look through the other posts to make sure someone else hasn't already submitted it.

If you want to suggest a feature in Obsidian, head over to Feature requests.

If you want to report a bug in Obsidian, head over to Bug reports. Bug reports are moved to the Bug graveyard once they're resolved.

Collect debug information

When you encounter a bug or need assistance from Obsidian support, providing debug information can be very helpful. Here's how to obtain it:

Open the Command palette.
Type Show debug info.
Select the highlighted Show debug info option.
Click Copy to clipboard.
Paste the copied information into your bug report or Obsidian support email.

Capture console logs

When you need to report a bug related to an Obsidian plugin or when requested by Obsidian support to provide log information, you may need to access the Obsidian console from within the Obsidian application. Here’s how to do it based on your operating system:

Windows: CTRL + SHIFT + i
MacOS: CMD + OPTION + i
Linux: CTRL + SHIFT + i

Once you've opened the developer console:

Select on console in the top menu.
Choose the errors side menu option. Any errors will be displayed as # errors.
Select one of the red error messages.
Choose the option to Save as... This will save all the errors in the console.
Save the log file to your device.
Attach the log file to your bug report or Obsidian support email.

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Mobile devices and tablets have limited access to their developer consoles. For these users, we recommend using the community plugin Logstravaganza to automatically generate the console log data in a markdown note.

Contact Obsidian support

Obsidian offers email support only for inquiries about commercial licenses, your account, payment, and add-on services (Obsidian Sync and Obsidian Publish). If you need help with any of those topics, email the Obsidian team.

Report a security issue

If you've discovered a security issue in Obsidian, or if you suspect that a plugin is malicious, please email the Obsidian team.

Report a Code of Conduct violation

Whether you're a victim or witness of a violation of our Community code of conduct, you can report the incident to our moderator team

Report the incident on one of the following community channels:

Contributing to Obsidian

Interested in applying some skills and free time to Obsidian? Here is where we could really use your assistance:

Help your fellow Obsidian users out by answering questions on our discord server, our forum, or the ObsidianMD reddit.
Developers, we could really use your help on expanding our Obsidian Developer Documentation.
Do you know any written language besides English? Consider assisting with our Translations into other languages.
Is there something in these help docs that are out of date, or confusing? Grab the Style guide and submit an issue and pull request.
If able, you can financially contribute by utilizing one of our paid addons.